Obama Releases Birth Certificate

President Obama apparently woke up this morning and decided to see how many times he could make Donald Trump’s toupee spin because he just released his supposedly mythical long form Hawaiian birth certificate which is now available on the White House blog:

The President believed the distraction over his birth certificate wasn’t good for the country. It may have been good politics and good TV, but it was bad for the American people and distracting from the many challenges we face as a country. Therefore, the President directed his counsel to review the legal authority for seeking access to the long form certificate and to request on that basis that the Hawaii State Department of Health make an exception to release a copy of his long form birth certificate. They granted that exception in part because of the tremendous volume of requests they had been getting.
At a time of great consequence for this country – when we should be debating how we win the future, reduce our deficit, deal with high gas prices, and bring stability to the Middle East, Washington, DC, was once again distracted by a fake issue. The President’s hope is that with this step, we can move on to debating the bigger issues that matter to the American people and the future of the country.

Of course, the most hilarious part about all this is like it means anything. The people, unlike Donald Trump, who genuinely believe Obama is a secret Kenyan assassin plotting to turn the Constitution into Sharia Law wouldn’t be convinced he’s an American if they watched him be birthed on Texas soil in the backseat of a Chevrolet filled with apple pie. The guy could spear Osama Bin Laden through the chest with a bald eagle, yelling “Free markets, HOOOOO!” and they’d still be sitting there going, “Yeah, I dunno. Maybe if he didn’t have black skin. Not trying to be racist!”

“Today I’m very proud of myself, because I’ve accomplished something that no one else has been able to accomplish.”
Trump added, “I want to look at it, but I hope it’s true so that we can get on to much more important matters … he should have done it a long time ago.”
He continued, “I am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue.”
As for the actual document, Trump added, “We have to look at it, we have to see … is it real? Is it proper? What’s on it? But I hope it checks out beautifully.”

I don’t know what bug crawled up Trump’s ass, but this is either for big ratings or some other financial goal. It has nothing really to do with politics.

Or…

He (trump) may also be trying to actively hurt the GOP. The more assholes get up on the television set screaming about the president isn’t an American or any of the other shit from the right’s playbook, the more it alienates moderate voters and that’s where you win elections. This isn’t a tossup for town Sheriff, this is the presidency. That shit is not going to fly this time or Obama is going to get a second term. This is especially acute because the guy has ended up being pretty middle of the road and reasonable.

That is, of course, if Trump was trying to be contrary and coy, but who knows..

I never bought that “Obama isn’t an American” shit. I mean, really. People honestly thought a major political party would run a guy who wasn’t eligible? I’m more interested in a full financial disclosure from Trump and his hair piece. I’ve read allegations that he isn’t worth anywhere near what he claims.

First, Donald Trump was wrong to pursue this. It made him look like a fool.

Second, this whole “birther” issue was brought about by Hillary Clinton, back when she was campaigning for President. She’s a Democrat, in case anybody forgot. Get your shit straight before you open your mouth.

Third, why is it that anyone who questions anything at all about Obama is labeled a racist? Can’t a black guy be incompetent?

Fourth, Obama doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell of being re-elected not because there is a question of his birthplace or his religion, but because he has been ineffectual as a President and he is wiping his ass with the Constitution.

And finally, fifth. We need a President that can run the country, not look good in a suit. Maybe Barack can go off on another golf vacation and let Biden run the country. He certainly couldn’t do any worse.

All this proves is that Trump is akin to the skid marks on an old set of underpants. In fact, he’s more like a pant load after too much chili and beans.

And Eric, there’s nothing wrong with questioning somebody’s competence, but that isn’t what the Donald did; he asserted that “his people” had information proving that Obama wasn’t born in the US. How is that questioning the guy’s competence; it’s questioning his integrity and playing into the “he’s not like us” crowd. And how is it that he isn’t like us? Gee, I dunno, hmmmmm, because he’s BLACK? So, questioning competence, not racist; raising stupid questions about where he was born, feels like something more than normal scepticism to me!

this is unbelievable. the sheer idiocy of these people. the response from birthers should not be ‘oh see, i’m so proud of myself in playing a role in this’, it should be ‘wow, i’m a fucking idiot and i’m really sorry’.
the stupidity epidemic is really scary.

You idiots on the left do not get it. Do you know what a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS?? You must be one to be President of the USA. We only want his long form bc so we can confirm what he said which is BHO Sr is his daddy. BHO Sr is not american, he is Kenyan. To be a natural born citizen, you must be born in the USA to two USA citizen parents. Obama was not because his dad is Kenyan/British. He is ineligible to be President and should be removed from office and lead out in handcuffs with all the other traitors that allowed it to happen.

No one cares where he was born. Educate yourself. He just sealed his own fate with that document even if it is legit. What kind of man holds on to it to allow a military officer who asked to see it to go to prison and lose all his benefits.

The dumbing down of american continues and you liberals think your hero just bitch slapped everyone by releasing that so called document. Instead he just confirmed that he is not eligible to be POTUS!!

Ok..ill play some more…Chester Arthur was ineligible just like Obama. If you read the Constitution, the nbc clause only applies to candidates at the time the Constitution was made or before. Duh. Otherwise George Washington and TJ were ineligible. As for the others you mention, were their parents naturalized ameircans prior to the candidates birth. If so, then they were citizens when the candidate was born and thus the candidate was nbc. For a simpler example, Trumps mom was born in Scotland, she became naturalized american before Trump was born. Thus Trump can be President as he is a nbc.

This is so wrong, it’s ridiculous. I knew there were going to be people who argued over this even after it was proved that he was an American born citizen. His MOTHER is from Kansas. BUT I guarantee that if both parents had been born in Kansas, and one grandparent was from Kenya, there would have been some argument that he’s still not a natural born citizen because Grandpa is from Kenya.
You need to educate YOURself. No one cares where his parents were born. The entire argument was over whether Obama himself was born in the US.
“On July 27, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.Res. 593, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii’s statehood, including the text, “Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961″. The vote passed 378–0.
Do a little research before you post.

Robert, I think you better do a good deal more research before commenting on the concept of “natural born citizen”. Your response is a typical “birther” misquoting of the facts. Had you bothered to read a little more and parrot lies a little less, you would have found that since long before the Obama birth certificate situation, the Constitutional clause relating to the meaning of “natural born citizen” has been interpreted to mean a. any person who is born on U.S. soil of a single parent, not owing allegiance to a foreign government. or b. any person born on U.S. soil regardless of the citizenship of their parents.
The concept of the constitutional requirement of citizenship is an archaic one at best, because the original intent of this requirement was to bar those owing allegiance to the British Crown from becoming President and realigning the country under British rule.
Of course since the “birthers” don’t bother to study history or for that matter factual evidence, you will continue to parrot bullshit…the dumbing down of America certainly does continue because of morons like yourself.

It happens to the best of us McFeely :(. I prefer to go the path of ridicule though. Reality is lost on some people, and thank god it is. Just imagine what the Superficial would be like without the likes of Britney Spears and Charlie Sheen?

I have done plenty of research Critical. A person can be a citizen without being a natural born citizen. Being a citizen is not enough to be President. To be a natural born citizen, which you need to be to be President, you must be born in the USA of two USA citizen parents. Why do you think the framers put this in the Constitution. It is to avoid somone with foreign allegiances ie say the leader of Russia, visiting the USA, impregnating an american, and that baby born in USA becoming President.

Before you start calling people a moron, do some research on your own and read the case law. At worst, its an undecided issue that needs to be heard by the Supreme Court so why do all these lawsuits get dismissed for lack of standing.

Forget the fact he spent all this money hiding it for so long(assume its not a forgery) and allowed a military officer to go to prison and dont even get started on whether he gave up whatever citizenship he had when he was adopted by Soetoro and moved to Indonesia. Thats the name he used all through college etc. What about the ss number he got in CT. Then he comes back to USA and calls himself Obama. Lets see all those documents. I think hes an illegal alien until he shows proof of citizenship being reclaimed once he returned from Indonesia.

Pull your head out of your ass and realize what this guy has done. Hes pulled off the biggest fraud in our countries history. The man has no character.

I wont even begin to argue why that document might even be a forgery. The bottom line is he is not eligible to be President but people dont care because heaven forbid the first black President is a fraud or a cheat. The streets riot and no one wants to see that because we are all a bunch of racists for wanting our Constitution to be followed.

From the Naturalization Act of 1790: “The children of citizens of the United States that may be born beyond the sea, or outside the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural-born citizens of the United States.”

“And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States”

You conveniently left out an important sentence. The right of natural born citizenship does not pass when your dad has never been resident in the US.

Obamas daddy is admittedly Kenyan. Hes no resident of the USA when Obama was born. Thus Obama cannot be a natural born citizen according to this act. Bitches!!

Christ Robert you are a moron. The notion of natural born citizen has been debated among constitutionalists far more intelligent than you for the length of time our country has been a country. I don’t think your little wikipedia browsing qualifies you to declare Obama should be removed in hand cuffs. McCain was born in the Panama Canal. It’s been debated that children, born of two U.S. parents outside of the U.S. are not Natural Born Citizens. He ran for president. He also has never shown his birth certificate. You don’t know what you are talking about. You need to go away now.

Robert Acquafresca:
“And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States”

Except that Obama was born in Hawaii, so this part doesn’t apply.

“All PERSONS BORN or naturalized IN the UNITED STATES, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, ARE CITIZENS of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

You might be considered correct if we were living before the passage of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution in 1868. (I know folks like you have a hard time catching up……but over 150 years….come on)

The Supreme Court ruling of United States v. Wong Kim Ark in 1898 proves you dead wrong on the issue.

You statement about the name the Mr. Obama used in college is complete bullshit also, his room mate at Columbia only knew him only by the name that is on his birth certificate.

@Robert Acquafresca:
That whole “citizenship is inherited exclusively through the father” business from the Naturalization Act of 1790 was superseded by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. But it’s cute how, in this day and age of women’s equality and such, you still
think that the child of an American mother and a foreign-national father isn’t an American citizen.

hey moron, I am not saying he is not a citizen, I am saying he is not a natural born citizen. Do you even know the difference. One can be a citizen but not a natural born citizen and not eligble to be President for varying reasons.

Amazing the stupidity around here. No wonder our country is going to shit.

I would suggest people stop replying to the nonsense spouted by Robert Acquafresca. It doesn’t matter to people like him, he has convinced himself he is right, even though no court in the land would agree with him. He hates Obama, has probably convinced himself that Obama is the first sign of the apocalypse, and likely has a nice little underground den for himself in Montana somewhere.

People like him see conspiracy everywhere but ignore the fact that the Republicans have raped and pillaged this country for the last decade, made us the largest debtor nation in the world starting with Reagan’s policies in the ’80s, and will do anything, and I mean anything, to get back in power to keep the party going.

thank christ obama got rid of that distraction. now he can focus on massive unemployment, exploding debt, supporting rebels who behead people in the name of islam, going to war without congressional support, golf, cronyism, union payoffs, promoting class warfare, investing in technology that doesn’t work, and furthering executive and/or federal overreach that he decried Bush for! FINALLY.

Now show me the paper that says he is not a Socialist hell bent on destroying the USA.
The birth certificate has always been a moot point in light of his politics. The whites should have asked if Lenin had a birth certificate before he confiscated all wealth and had opposition marched out into the woods and shot like dogs.

Well, most socialists would have jumped at the chance to really reform wall street in a way that would have meaningfully curtailed the worst abuses of our economic system. Probably would have demanded the multi-million dollar bonuses that were paid out to the (overwhelmingly conservative) hedge fund managers and the management of the banks that destroyed our economy go instead to some of those who lost everything in the crash. Your garden variety socialist would have gotten rid of the Bush tax cuts (which were originally sold to the American people as a way to “spend our surplus!”) pretty much right away. About a hundred more things I could list, too.

So really almost any paper you would read, J. You know, one of my favorite Biblical verses is “By their fruit shall ye know them”. Might be useful for you, the next time you’re Rushing to Excellence or listening to Billo. You know, to compare and contrast what they’re telling you to believe with the evidence of your own senses.